CFP Satire conference Lincoln, UK

[Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe]

The Lincoln School of Humanities and Performing Arts in association with Lincoln Comedy Festival presents a one day comedy Symposium: 9th October 2010

The Horror, the Humour: Satire and Dark Comedy in a Postmodern World

This one day comedy symposium sets out to examine the notion of satire and the overlap with Dark Comedy in the 21st Century, with particular reference to the post 1960's so called boom.  In the last part of his book, That Was Satire That Was, (2000), Humphrey Carpenter declares that 'Everyone is [now] a satirist.'   The conference then aims to begin to identify where satire stands in the postmodern world. It asks such questions as:  How has the political landscape changed the notion of satire (particularly interesting in this election year)? Are people so cynical with regard to politics that the job of the satirist is harder than ever before? How has the notion of Political Correctness affected the work of the satirist and whether Humphrey Carpenter's declaration that 'Everyone is a Satirist' is justified? 
This is an interdisciplinary conference and welcomes papers on satire in its many forms from TV and Film Drama to debates around political cartoons whilst also seeking papers on non-western forms of Satire in addition to the Anglo-American.
Possible topics could include but are not exclusive to these subjects:

*       Satire and Politics (in every sense of the term 'Politics')
*       Satire and Gender
*       Satire in the Global Context
*       Satire and Journalism
*       The Satirist and  Fine Art
*       Satire on Film and Television (including Animation)
*       Satire in Theatrical Performance
*       Satire in the Novel
*       Political Cartoons

The conference will run alongside the Lincoln Comedy Festival now in its 3rd Year, a festival described by The Guardian as a 'young but lovingly crafted comedy feast.'  The details of this year's festival line up are due to go live on the Festival Website by the end of March 2010.
www.lincolncomedyfestival.co.uk <https://email.lincoln.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lincolncomedyfestival.co.uk>  

Whilst the symposium will run on the middle Saturday of the festival, the festival itself will run over four days, featuring a mixture of established acts, as well as new talent, performance artists alongside Stand Up Comedians at a variety of venues around the City of Lincoln.  The symposium itself will finish with tickets for the live act at the centre of the festival on Saturday evening.

Please email 200-300 word abstracts to conferences at lincoln.ac.uk.  Further information, programmes and keynote speakers when confirmed can be found at http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/index.htm <https://email.lincoln.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/index.htm> 


CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 30TH JUNE 2010


 
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